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Seems like a lot of work (and risk) to avoid paying someone ~ $5 or less / month.

The machine has 24 GB of RAM, which is nowhere near that cheap in most places.

KS-A (https://eco.ovhcloud.com/de/): 64GB RAM, 480GB SSD, ~5USD/month

I would not trust OVH anything which not ephemeral, as there were couple of quite interesting incidents [0] in the last years.

0 - https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/ovhcloud-fire...

This is a bit alarmist. They are one of the biggest web hosts in the world, whole companies run on their servers and cloud without issues. Accidents happen and you always need to have backups, ideally in another DC.

No, it's not.

They burned down two DCs, by the way. I advise to read analysis first as it shows utter blatant negligence when planning their DCs to reduce cooling costs, note the air tonnel effect "EcoRoom" design (at least the two DCs that burned down, but not limited to them), and operational issues like firefighters inability to turn off the AC, so they just stand there watching the firestorm.

Nice place! Host your servers, sure!

It's the most catastrophic DC fire ever.

Wow, pairing a 9 year old processor with 64GB ram and 100Mbps. What are common use-cases that require much ram but not processing power, disk space or a higher bandwidth?

That is their "budget" ("eco") line so the target is people on a budget or hobbyists so that's why you sometimes get odd or old hardware.

Sure, was just a bit surprised by the amount of ram, but I'm guessing they just had old ram from older high-end servers and put it to use.

Seems it was also just sold out, maybe because of your comment.

Yes, the sku that has a stock of 2 every couple of months.

Do you need anywhere near that much to run nextcloud?

Of course not but you can run way more stuff on this server in parallel to nextcloud

Nextcloud is not exactly known for being fast and not needing lots of memory.

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